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n. (plural of fan palm English)
Usage examples of "fan palms".
We had drunk earlier, from the water cupped at the base of the leaves of fan palms.
But here, inland, the ancient forest was rich and diverse, full of tall trees with flaring buttresses: papaws, cashews, fan palms.
There were birds in the nearby fan palms and he heard their calls, their wings.
On either side of the door, a row of thirty-foot fan palms had been planted in enormous black jars.
He had a flint knife, and it was a beautiful thing, beautifully worked, and as he searched for my heart, I saw the fan palms waving above our twined bodies.
Near the river were groves of majestic flabellaria fan palms and weeping willows.
On the bleached calico window blind, the first nodding patterns of sunlight shone through the fan palms in her garden, and made a shadow-play.
I could see four wide fieldstone chimneys, clusters of fan palms, and colossal black boulders the size of my car that must have erupted from Vesuvius and been transported to the grounds for effect.
Two rows of potted fan palms were arranged on either side of a length of trampled-looking red carpet that heralded the path to the front desk.
These things had come from Mesozoic gymnosperms and conifers - especially Cretaceous cycads - and from fan palms and early angiosperms of plainly Tertiary date.